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On Sunday I took time out of this very busy period to attend a workshop called “Write from the Hip,” an experimental partnership between Sasha Lasdon of Integrated Eros and Miriam Hall of Herspiral Contemplative Arts. I’d been curious about the Herspiral writing classes and wanting to attend one for years, and this one, which integrated movement with contemplative writing and met at a yoga studio in my neighborhood, seemed too good to pass up.[...]
Decisions have never been easy for me. This could be for many reasons, including, perhaps, some childhood traumas of feeling I had to make impossible decisions between people I loved (since these are a bit intense I will perhaps save them for the book version of this tale). There are also more positive causes of my indecisiveness: I have a nimble brain and can see things from many perspectives (very helpful as a meeting facilitator, not so helpful in the role of “decider”); and have a lot of privilege and access to many, many possibilities (from the 20 brands of yogurt at the grocery store, to the hundreds of meditation/personal transformation/spiritual/creative retreats and workshops that look attractive and that I have time & money to do).[...]
Since meeting with Jess, “my editor,” in Oakland last week, I have been feeling lots of urges to write, without finding a lot of time in my schedule to do so. Jess had read through all my blog postings at least once, and given me global comments, as well as working through the first few months of entries in more detail with detailed comments. We talked about what the deeper themes of the hypothetical book could be, and how I might structure it, and how I might structure my time to make room for writing it. And, how we might use visual processes to sort out the organization of the book, using sticky-notes in person or a mind-mapping equivalent online.[...]
